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Time Off, Light Duty Denials Drive EEOC Pregnancy Litigation

Most of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's latest crop of Pregnant Workers Fairness Act cases stem from employers penalizing workers for pregnancy-related absences or pushing back on their requests to temporarily forgo strenuous work, shedding light on the statute's contours as its implementing regulations are slated for revision. 

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Midterms Carry Hefty Stakes For Labor, Observers Say

Democratic gains in the midterms could boost a proposed collective bargaining overhaul and shrink the timeline for the National Labor Relations Board's Republican majority to shift policy in employers' favor, labor policy observers said Thursday at a New York University School of Law conference. 

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DOL Solicitor Talks Wage-Hour Successes 1 Year Into Job

The U.S. Department of Labor’s top lawyer told a room of attorneys at the New York University School of Law on Thursday that compliance assistance is helpful because of imited enforcement resources and that finalizing an independent contractor rule is an agency priority. Labor Solicitor Jonathan Berry sat down with Law360 at the conference.

Expert Analysis

Clippers Salary Cap Probe Offers Investigation Tips For Cos.

Olaoluwaposi Oshinowo and Colin Cloherty

The NBA's recent investigation into whether the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented salary cap rules offers an unusu... (more story)

NY Severance Rules Persist Despite McLaren Macomb Threat

Matthew Berman

Despite recent calls to overturn the National Labor Relations Board's decision in McLaren Macomb, New York's robus... (more story)

Data Sale In Spirit Bankruptcy Raises Novel Privacy Risks

Daniel Lowenthal and Kimberly Black

Spirit Airlines' planned sale of deidentified business data to Google for artificial intelligence training exposes... (more story)

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Union Illegally Rejected Member's Resignation, Ruling Says

A Michigan electrical workers union has unlawfully refused to accept a member's resignation and fined him more than $6,000 for starting his own contracting business, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled.

Gov't Urges Justices To Reject Google, Intel Fight Over Fintiv

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Intel Corp. and Google LLC's challenge to a precedent allowing Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions to be denied based on related litigation.

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Union Can't Arbitrate Quarrel Over Kraft Retiree Benefits

A Delaware federal judge blocked a Teamsters union from arbitrating claims that the Kraft Heinz Company improperly withheld health benefits from retirees, ruling the parties' collective bargaining agreement ma... (more story)

NLRB Official Tosses Union's Petition At Ind. Transport Co.

A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board's Chicago office has tossed a union's bid to represent a nationwide bargaining unit of employees at an Indiana-based transportation company, finding t... (more story)

Unions, Nonprofits Get USDA Reorganization Plan Blocked

A California federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Agriculture from closing offices and reshuffling staff, saying the department's planned reorganization likely amounted to "reprogrammin... (more story)

Atty Sanctioned For Vulgar Emails To Opposing Counsel

A Texas federal magistrate judge has sanctioned an attorney who serves as principal for an oil and gas exploration company locked in a trade secret misappropriation case with a rival after opposing counsel com... (more story)

IBEW Union Hall Wants Out Of COVID-19 Loan Fraud Suit

An International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall in Boston asked a Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday to toss claims that it committed fraud by collecting a COVID-19 relief loan it wasn't eligi... (more story)

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Wash. Justices Doubt Prosecutor Immunity In Judge DQ Case

Washington Supreme Court justices pushed back Thursday on assertions by a county prosecutor's office that it's immune from claims that it improperly used disqualification affidavits to remove a former judge fr... (more story)

Norfolk Southern On The Hook For $1.6M In Age Bias Suit

An Alabama federal judge entered final judgment Thursday in favor of a former longtime Norfolk Southern worker who claimed the Atlanta-based company and two subsidiaries violated federal age discrimination law... (more story)

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EEOC Tells 4th Circ. To Uphold Worker's Citizenship Bias Win

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked the Fourth Circuit not to grant a BMW manufacturing unit's bid to upend a national bias verdict for an American former employee, saying the threat of demo... (more story)

11th Circ. Backs Allegiant Win Over Race Bias, Retaliation Suit

The Eleventh Circuit refused to reopen a Black former Allegiant Airlines employee's suit alleging she was fired for complaining to the CEO that white colleagues were harassing her and making racist jokes, find... (more story)

Firm Fired Recruiter For Flagging $20K Bonus Cut, Suit Says

Financial firm The Baldwin Group denied full wages and proper breaks and fired a former senior recruiter after she challenged a $20,000 cut to her promised bonus, according to a proposed class and collective a... (more story)

Marijuana Co. Wraps Up EEOC Disability Bias Suit

A medical marijuana company will pay an ex-employee $150,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business fired her less than an hour after she asked to take breaks at w... (more story)

Solar Co. Failed To Stop Workers' Gay Slurs, Suit Says

A solar energy installation company fired two married employees who repeatedly complained that coworkers were harassing them and using homophobic slurs, the workers alleged Wednesday in Maine federal court.

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Fighters Resist Funding Inquiry In UFC Wage Antitrust Case

A group of MMA fighters suing the UFC over alleged wage-fixing are resisting the organization's attempt to obtain information about the fighters' litigation funding, casting the effort as a distraction from their lawsuit.

Security Cos. Failed To Pay For Shift Handoffs, Guard Says

Two security companies failed to pay guards for work performed before their shifts started, shorted them on overtime pay and withheld earned vacation time, a security guard alleged Thursday in a proposed class... (more story)

DOL Seeks To Extend USMCA Wage Records Collection

The U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday it is seeking a three-year extension of its authority to collect records used to verify that automakers meet wage standards tied to preferential tariffs under the Uni... (more story)

Dog Hotel Accused Of Denying Pay For Off-Clock Work

A dog hotel chain failed to pay workers for time spent waiting to clock in, assisting customers and working through meal breaks, according to a proposed class action in California state court.

Warehouse Workers Win $1.55M Settlement In Wage Suit

Thousands of California warehouse workers have reached a $1.55 million settlement with a staffing company over allegations that they were denied proper meal and rest breaks and were not fully paid for their wo... (more story)

Amazon Workers Allege Unpaid Time At Exit Security Checks

Amazon.com Services LLC fails to pay its Washington warehouse workers for time spent in mandatory anti-theft security screenings when leaving its facilities, two former employees claimed in a proposed wage cla... (more story)

Ogletree Adds 8 Labor, Employment Attys From Fisher Phillips

Management-side labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins LLP said Wednesday it has hired eight attorneys from Fisher Phillips.